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/ɡæd/ · interjection
An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake..
The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.
Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?
Use gad when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gad means An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake..
Common synonyms include gallivant, gadling, spike, spur.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
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